scholarly journals Enhancement of chemical sensing capability 
in a photonic crystal fiber 
with a hollow high index ring defect at the center

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 1921 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiyoung Park ◽  
Sejin Lee ◽  
Soan Kim ◽  
Kyunghwan Oh
Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 1799
Author(s):  
Tianyu Yang ◽  
Liang Zhang ◽  
Yunjie Shi ◽  
Shidi Liu ◽  
Yuming Dong

A photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with high relative sensitivity was designed and investigated for the detection of chemical analytes in the terahertz (THz) regime. To ease the complexity, an extremely simple cladding employing four struts is adopted, which forms a rectangular shaped core area for filling with analytes. Results of enormous simulations indicate that a minimum 87.8% relative chemical sensitivity with low confinement and effective material absorption losses can be obtained for any kind of analyte, e.g., HCN (1.26), water (1.33), ethanol (1.35), KCN (1.41), or cocaine (1.50), whose refractive index falls in the range of 1.2 to 1.5. Besides, the PCF can also achieve high birefringence (∼0.01), low and flat dispersion, a large effective modal area, and a large numerical aperture within the investigated frequency range from 0.5 to 1.5 THz. We believe that the proposed PCF can be applied to chemical sensing of liquid and THz systems requiring wide-band polarization-maintaining transmission and low attenuation.


2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 1942 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming-Lie Hu ◽  
Ching-Yue Wang ◽  
Yan-Feng Li ◽  
Lu Chai ◽  
Aleksei M. Zheltikov

2016 ◽  
Vol 253 (10) ◽  
pp. 1898-1906 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tushar Biswas ◽  
Rik Chattopadhyay ◽  
Shyamal K. Bhadra

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Mohammad Saiful Islam ◽  
Anwar Sadath ◽  
Md. Rakibul Islam ◽  
Mohammad Faisal

Nowadays photonic crystal fiber (PCF) is used for sensing purposes in different fields. In this work, we have proposed a PCF based chemical (Benzene and Ethanol) sensor. Finite Element Method (FEM) based software COMSOL 5.3a is used to investigate the numerical characteristics for the proposed structure. From the numerical analysis, we obtained high sensitivity with low losses for an optimum core diameter of 210 µm. Our proposed PCF works on a broad range of core diameters and THz frequency spectra. The fabrication of this model is very simple due to its simplistic design structure. Full Text: PDF ReferencesMd.F.H. Arif, Md.J.H. Biddut, "A new structure of photonic crystal fiber with high sensitivity, high nonlinearity, high birefringence and low confinement loss for liquid analyte sensing applications", Sensing Bio-Sensing Res. 12, 8 (2017). CrossRef P. Kumar, Md.H. Bikash, K. Ahmed, S. Sen, "A Novel Hexahedron Photonic Crystal Fiber in Terahertz Propagation: Design and Analysis", Photonics 6(1), 32 (2019). CrossRef S. Asaduzzaman, K. Ahmed, T. Bhuiyan, T. Farah, "Hybrid photonic crystal fiber in chemical sensing", SpringerPlus 5, 748 (2016). CrossRef Md.S. Islam, J. Sultana, J. Atai, D. Abbott, S. Rana, M.R. Islam, "Ultra low-loss hybrid core porous fiber for broadband applications", App. Opt. 56(4), 1232 (2017). CrossRef S. Atakaramians, S. Afshar, H. Ebendorff-Heidepriem, M. Nagel, B.M. Fischer, D. Abbott, T.M. Monro, "THz porous fibers: design, fabrication and experimental characterization", Opt. Expr. 17(16), 14053 (2009). CrossRef


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